Hilmer and Sattler und Albrecht: Buildings and Projects (Bauten und Projekte)

This title features text in English and German. Numerous buildings have been added to the uvre of Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht since the year 2000, when the first book about the architects’ work was published. The Berlin practice has tied itself more closely to historical models with its buildings in Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz and also at the Lenne-Dreieck, now rearranged in urban development terms, with the Beisheim Center and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Apartment Tower, while the Munich buildings in Karl- Scharnagl-Ring or on the Theresienhohe keep to a formal language more closely related to Modernism. The new residential buildings in Berlin and Munich, usually intended for particularly wealthy clients, tackle new urban-development and design, which means that Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht are continuing one of the practice’s important fields of activity. One particular jewel is the little museum to house a reconstruction of the famous Gottorf Globe, in the Baroque garden of Schloss Gottorf near Schleswig. In this small building, as also in the Picasso Museum in Munster, the architects set off a firework display of ideas and references from European architectural history, making it possible to speak of an intellectual game with the history of architecture. Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht have thus once more identified themselves as leading representatives of a building culture oscillating between relating to the present and understanding tradition properly.